Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition Interspace

Exhibition: Medprostor (Interspace)
Venue: Small border crossing Libeliče and Radlje ob Dravi Library Gallery, SI
Date: 28 September – 23 October & 4 November 8 – December 2022

Artists: Nika Autor, Boris Beja, Vesna Bukovec, Jošt Franko, Jure Markota, Mark Požlep

Curator: Nina Popič

The Medprostor (Interspace) exhibition is conceived for the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the annexation of Libeliče to the motherland. Originating from consideration of the borders that mark the geopolitical area of ​​Slovenia and specifically the border between Slovenia and Austria, we are dealing with a broader concept and the phenomenon of borders in general. Selected artists and artists from different viewpoints focus on artistic research and interpretations of geopolitical landscapes and reveal personal stories. They open the topic of borders with a clear social-critical emphasis. With the exhibition, we want to establish an alternative consideration of border spaces, where hybrid identities are created and established. In the past, these spaces were mostly defined as inferior, but here we want to highlight them as spaces of potential, if not even the future.

The exhibition is part of the project “Koroška 100 let pozneje” (Carinthia 100 years later), organized by the Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (KGLU), Slovenj Gradec.

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I am participating with the project
A World without Borders (2021), which includes a participatory part with postcards and a series of 9 drawings.

Visual identity of the 28th City of Women festival and poster campaign

Seventh year of the cooperation with the City of Women team (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021).
Design of the visual identity of the 28th edition of the festival, design of the festival website and promotional material.

Commissioned by the City of Women, I’ve created a new series of drawings entitled Local Racisms, 2022 for the poster campaign and promotion of the festival. It will be on view from 30 September to 10 October at TAM-TAM poster sites in Ljubljana.

Cover art for the book Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change

I have contributed the drawing For Radical Change (2022) for the cover of the book:

Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change
Edited by: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek
Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022

Texts by: Yela An, Esther (Mayoko) Ortega Arjonilla, Maja Breznik, Diana Bulzan, Lucrecia Masson Córdoba, Nina Cvar, Antonio Fuentes Diaz, İklim Doğan, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Lina Gonan, Mia Gonan, Marina Gržinić, Kyungrim Lim Jang, Tjaša Kancler, Saša Kesić, Taida Kusturica, Cathérine Lehnerer, Mika Maruyama, iki yos piña narváez funes, Stanimir Panayotov, Jovita Pristovšek, Piro Rexhepi, Joshua Simon, Šefik Tatlić

About the book:
This volume takes as its starting point the question of whether there is a pluriversal generation, a younger group of scholars who do not necessarily collaborate or know each other, but who are currently forming a radical structure that is viral in thought production and reflective on the current global recalibration of social relations, brought about by the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide.

The 23 articles assembled in this volume transcend geographical boundaries, conceive of the world as a single entity, and develop strategies for radical change. They are presented in five subchapters with two lines of demarcation, one for entry, invention, and potentiality, and the other for a grim threshold.

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Presentation of the book

Editors: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek
Authors: Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Nina Cvar, Šefik Tatlić ,Stanimir Panayotov, Lucrecia Masson Córdoba, Tjaša Kancler, Saša Kesić

Be(com)ing a Woman

Exhibition: Be(com)ing a Woman / (P)ostati ženska
Venue: Museum of Recent History Celje (MNZC), Celje, SI
Date: 8 March – 31 Avgust 2022

With the exhibition Be(com)ing a Woman, the museum opens the space for reflection on intimate feelings and gender awareness, social relations and the representation of women in museums. It places the personal stories of individuals next to the collective ones and explores where the boundaries between the personal and the social are and where the intersections are, where our individual experiences become part of the common.

The exhibition also includes artworks by Vesna Bukovec and Lea Culetto.

Curator: Urška Repar
Associates: Maja Antončič, Katja Pur
Design: Neža Penca
Videos at the exhibition: Maja Hodošček, Nuša Ofentavšek

Along with the exhibition a collection of written contributions was published. Authors of the texts are: Maja Antončič, Tea Hvala, Nuša Komplet Peperko, Katja Pur, Urška Repar, dr. Polona Sitar and dr. Svetlana Slapšak.

MNZC prepares numerous public guided tours and events to accompany the exhibition. Part of the programme is also prepared by the Center for Contemporary Arts Celje.

More (in Slovene): MNZC website in CSU website

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I participate with the series of drawings Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012)

Inertia Moment of Resistance / Dialogue Vesna Bukovec : Janez Zalaznik

Exhibition: Inertia Moment of Resistance / Dialogue Vesna Bukovec : Janez Zalaznik (Vztrajnostni moment upora / Dialog Vesna Bukovec : Janez Zalaznik)
Venue: Savinov likovni salon, Žalec, SI
Date: 27 January – 5 March 2022

Curator: Vesna Teržan

About the exhibition

The dialogue between the visual artist Vesna Bukovec and Janez Zalaznik is a summary of the inertia moment of modern globalized society, which revolves around the city and delves into the abyss of neoliberal capitalism. The dialogue of two visual artists is a dialogue of two generations, each in their own way dealing with the role of visual art in contemporary society.

The project is a mix of drawings and graphics by Vesna Bukovec with photographs by Janez Zalaznik, which were taken at anti-government protests in the last two years and express two possible creative spaces that reflect social reality.

Organized by Zavod za kulturo, šport in turizem Žalec. Support: Žalec Munucipality

Invitation card (pdf)
Exhibition leaflet (pdf)

www.zkst-zalec.si

Savinov likovni salon, Žalec
Šlandrov trg 25, 3310 Žalec

Open: Mon-Fri: 10.00 – 17.00, Sat: 10.00 – 13.00.
Free entrence.

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Press clipping:

• Ni nam vseeno, Vesna Teržan, Mladina št. 6, 11. 2. 20222
• Prispevek Ksenije Rozman za VTV Magazin, 1. 2. 2022
• Barbara Štor, Vztrajnostni moment upora, Kultura, RTV SLO,  31. 1. 2022
• Damjana Kolar, Kako reflektirati družbeno stvarnost?, Mladina, 30. 1. 2022

ZKŠT Žalec, snemanje: Videoprodukcija Robert Gaber

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My works at the exhibition:

• Not in my Name, 2016
• In vendar me briga / And yet I do bother, 2019 (selection)
• Cyclists are Coming, 2020
• Drugačen svet je mogoč, 2021

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Exhibition view
(photo: Janez Zalaznik, Vesna Bukovec)